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Absolutely. NSA has its own fab to guarantee security and ensure secrecy. No reason why we can’t have a corporation that pushes semiconductor tech forward.

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So did NSA buy last gen tech from Intel/GlobalFoundries and set it up somewhere secret or did they develop it in-house?

Actually I am wrong. NSA divested their fab a while ago. Instead they use the Trusted Foundry Program.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Foundry_Program

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